Confession on the Universal Physico-Chemical Chaos

This Triune original: Triunum. Khunrath refers to the alchemical trinity of Body, Soul, and Spirit contained within a single substance. substance is powerful Naturally and Physico-Artificially original: Physico-Artificialiter. This implies a process that occurs both through natural laws and through the skilled intervention of the alchemist’s art. to act and operate upon All things that have arisen from the First Matter original: Prima Materia. The fundamental, undifferentiated substance from which the universe was created.. Whence it is called the Elixir, that is, Strength original: Fortitudo. In this context, the Elixir is defined by its inherent power to penetrate and transform other substances.. Furthermore, it is so called because it contains within Itself Everything which it needs for its own constitution. For in It is the Monad original: Monas. The indivisible, primary unit of existence.; the Chaos; the Matter original: hyle (ὕλη). A Greek philosophical term for the raw stuff of the universe, prior to being given form.; the Green Lion original: Leo viridis. A famous alchemical symbol usually representing the raw, "unripe" matter or a powerful solvent like vitriol capable of dissolving gold.: the Binary original: Binarius. The principle of duality or the pairing of opposites.; Matter and Form; Sun and Moon Alchemical symbols for the active/masculine (gold/sulfur) and passive/feminine (silver/mercury) principles.; Red and White The two main stages of the alchemical Great Work: the "white work" (albedo) and the final "red work" (rubedo).; Male and Female; King and Queen: the Ternary original: Ternarius. The principle of threefoldness.; Body, Spirit, and Soul, that is